Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-08
HERR MOST CONVICTED.

The Anarchist AEst.tor Found Guilty OF
the CharHss Against Him.
NEW YORK, Nov J0-Wheu the trial OF
Johann Most was resumed yesterday morn
ing the defendant was called to the witness
stand to testify in his own behalf He
denied that he had threatened the execu-
toner Of the Anarchists in Chicago or any
one else. The meeting at Kraemer's hall
at which the alleged seditious speech was
made was, he said, . public one. Mr..
Schultz was the chairman and not Schenck,
as the police testified. He addressed his
hearers as he said as 'Fellow-citizens''a and
not as Anarchists He then went on to-
give his version of the speech he made. It.
lacked the threats and violent language he.
is charged with having uttered. lon the
cry of Revenge! being uttered in the audi
ence, he went On, / said, Not now.
The capitalists are arraved against.
US. We are here to accuse. and / ac-
cuse Grinnell, Gary and the judges of
the murder" He had described Powderly
as an instrument IN the execution by not
taking sides with the condemned men. He
was not sure that he SAID he would give
ten years of his life to know the hangman
and that he would strangle him. He had
never said tina: for every man killed in
Chicago five hrndred would be slaughtered.
Most said he was Communis,ic An
archist. WED no: fight against any par
ticular government" said Most; 1--WE do,
do not specially fight the Government Of
the United States; we are opposed to gov
eminent as such. We think the power
held by the government should be abol-
ished."
Bombs .nd dynaElite:' asked Mr..
Nicoll.
Yes, on both Sides"
"Your idea is to conquer peaceably if you
can, by force if you must.'
''That is history We believe force will
be necessary in time"
On crosS-eXamination Assistant District
Attorney Nicoll questioned Most on the
record of his past life. The prisoner said
he had been convicted of treason in Aus
tfia In 1869, and had been imprisoned one
year In 1879 he was again convicted in
that country of the same crime and got
five years sentence, but gained his liberty
in 1871 through amnesty granted to
political prisoners. In 1872 he was SEN
fenced to one years Imprisonment in
Berlin for calling the Emperor of
Germany Il ''slaughterer' and a ''massa-
Greer In 1874 he Was sentenced to I'M
prsonment for one year and six months
for speech made in Berlin on the MEM
orial day of the Paris commune. In 1857
he was sentenced in Berlin TO two months
Imprisonment for blasphemy. In 1881 he
was sentenced in England to eighteen
months lnprisou menJ for applauding in
the F'rthet the killing Of the Gar. When
he got out of prison there he came to this
country and has since remained here.
The witness admitted having written
L G.
ments in Ancient Rome" s'Bastile of Plot
zee" "The He'll of Blackwelrs Island,'E
and others.
A wrangie between the lawyers cnsued
when Most was asked whether he had
written book on the cart of Revolution
airy Warfare or book on dynamite and
other explosives. He refused to answer on
the ground that the answer would tend to
criminate him. He also declined to answer
whether he believed that modern explO-
sives were necessary to carry out his ideas;
whether he had advised others as to the
cheapest manner of manufacturing cX-
plosives; whether he had advised that an
electric battery be used at q distance to ex.
plOde dynamite, but when a few moments
can be had TO get away, fuse of six or eight
inches will serve; whether he had said
that for an explosion in Il crowd she'll Is
best, and it should be glObular to produce
splendid results; whether he had said that
a gas pipe with screw caps will produce
brilliant results; whether he had advised
that Il fruit jar be filed with benZine in
which medicine glass filed with powder,
tightly closed and having fuse, be placed
and that on bursting the fiery benzine would
be scattered; whether he advised the use
of the deadly poison curare on arrow heads.
The witness grew greatly excited when
these questions were asked and declined tC
answer each on the same ground. He sad
vehemently: ''What have they to do With
my speech at kraemers Hall.'
But the judge in each case allowed the
question.
This ended the evidence and the argu.
ments Of counsel followed at once, occupy
ing two hours.
At ten o'clock the jury entered the court
room and rendered Il verdict of guilty as
charged in the indictment.